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From Fabrizio Ferrari who is CEO, violinist and music composer at Virtual Sheet Music. – Richard Schletty
I am sending you this letter to inform you of our latest additions and news (as you requested). Today we are also featuring our first music commentary, with deep musical insights, from our senior editor Jennifer Vose.
Important: Many of our users have not discovered our entire catalog yet, so here is the link:
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New Exclusive Transcriptions and Arrangements in High Quality Sheet Music by Virtual Sheet Music®
These are exclusive high quality, downloadable and printable digital sheet music titles by Virtual Sheet Music offered in PDF file format complete of audio MIDI and Mp3 files. Most of these items also include Mp3 accompaniment files to play along with your computer or Mp3 audio player. These arangements are exclusive, and cannot be found anywhere else!
Moments for string quartet "Moments" for string quartet, by Andre Van Haren
http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/ml/MomentsSQuartet
Moments for...
From JMT Ministries:
We pray you have experienced a most Blessed Lent and Easter with your family and friends!
We have exciting news to share: John Michael Talbot has begun recording his first music project in 5 years and we need to make room for new inventory! This is VERY GOOD NEWS for YOU!
To make room on our shelves we are offering you our BIGGEST SALE EVER:
Complete details follow below! All prices for CDs and Books have already been...
Hi all! I am a big fan of the music notation software Sibelius and created 4 tutorials that are available on Amazon. All these guides are downloadable, and are Print Replicas Kindle Editions, which sounds very impressive, but simply means that they are printable PDF files! The information is explained in easy to follow steps and I included lots of helpful screenshots.
Psalm 67: O God, Let All The Nations Praise You
for Sixth Sunday of Easter, Cycle C or for Thanksgiving Day Mass
Music: © 2016 Matilda Jane Kraemer – www.matildajanekraemer.com
Text: Revised Grail Psalms, © 2010 Conception Abbey/The Grail, admin. by GIA Publications, Inc. – www.giamusic.com
Baritone soloist: Richard Schletty – ...
Movement 7 from Hungry For Heaven. A total of 11 movements at www.hungryforheaven.com
Lift Me Up
7th Movement, Hungry for Heaven
Raise me skyward in a torrent
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Onidrol wrote:
"I am a trainer/conductor of the San Isidro Parish Choir of Musuan, Bukidnon, Philippines. I need choral arrangements for liturgical services."
Can you help Onidrol? Please make comments below. Thank you for your participation.
I can start out by recommending you visit the web site of composer Paul F. Page. He has a number of scores of sacred/liturgical choral works that can be freely downloaded. http://www.paulpage.org/Paul_Page_Music/Vocal_Music.html
Tell Paul I sent you!
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"Be The Difference" is an awesome song. Great singing, lyrics and production. – Richard
From my friend Fabrizio.
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A movement from my project Hungry For Heaven: www.hungryforheaven.com
Pour Heaven on Me
Movement 2: Hungry for Heaven opus
Pour heaven on me. Pour heaven on me.
Keep me safe from evil.
Put fire in my bones.
Help me play the part
Make me burn with passion.
as you make me whole.
Pour it out! Pour it out!
You're the man with answers.
Listen to...
From Jeff Ostrowski at Corpus Christi Watershed: www.ccwatershed.org
OUR CATHOLIC HYMNS are already beautiful enough to begin with; but great masters like Marenzio, Victoria, Guerrero, and Palestrina took things to another level.
Listen to how Guerrero transforms this famous hymn:
Pop Quiz • Most Beautiful Hymn You’ve Never Heard
Do you see how he makes it into a Canon in the final section? Isn't that incredible?
My guess is that you've never heard this piece in church before—but it can...
A message from Jeff Ostrowski at Corpus Christi Watershed.
Big News! Sacred Music Symposium in Los Angeles!
published 5 February 2016 by Jeff Ostrowski
Today, I need your help. I need you to please forward this:
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Register Now:
Music Ministry Alive!
July 26-31, 2016
St. Catherine University
Saint Paul, Minnesota
As of today, ALL of the application materials and other information for Music Ministry Alive 2016 ("With the Eyes of Mercy") are up and available at:...
Greetings!
Happy Epiphany! And to celebrate, St. James Music Press (not unlike those travelers from the East) is happy to come bearing gifts. We would have liked to offer you the traditional Epiphany tribute, but with the cost of myrrh these days, we just couldn't manage it.
Instead, how about this FREE anthem?
Day by Day - by Mark Schweizer
For two-part equal voices and Keyboard (piano or organ). A gentle and enchanting melody that works beautifully in canon. Easy and lovely! Great for your children's choir, a duet, during communion, or as a quickly-learned anthem.
Of course, our cunning plan in offering you this free anthem is to get you to realize that a yearly subscription to SJMP (only...
We Three Kings sung at the Church of St. Mary, January 3, 2016.
We three kings of Orient are
Bearing gifts we traverse afar.
Field and fountain, moor and mountain,
Following yonder star.
O star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright,...
My voice got better. A cold plagued me at 11:30 Mass on Christmas Day. Here is our prelude song for Feast of the Epiphany on January 3.
Brightest and Best, a song for Feast of the Epiphany. Text: Reginald Heber. Tune: STAR IN THE EAST, Southern Harmony, 1835).
Brightest and Best
Lyrics by Reginald Heber, 1783-1826
1. Brightest and best of the stars of the morning,
Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid;
Star of the East, the horizon adorning,
Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Refrain:
Brightest and best of the...
I chose to sing this in key of C rather than Eb. Too much church music is written too high for average voices. When will liturgical publishers get wise re vocal range?
Words: "Corde natus ex Parentis." Marcus A. C. Prudentius, 348-413. Translated by John M. Neale, 1818-1866 and Henry W. Baker, 1821-1877, alt.
Music: from a "Sanctus" trope, Mode V, 11th century. "Piae Cantiones," Greifswald, 1582.
1. Of the Father's love begotten
Ere the worlds began to be,
He is Alpha and Omega,
He the Source, the Ending He,
Of the things that are, that have been,
And the future years shall see
Evermore and...
Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming. Written in key of F. Should be in the key of D! Too high for my baritone voice. I will sing this on Christmas at the Church of Saint Mary in downtown Saint Paul.
Text: German, 15th century. Verses 1,2: Translated by Theodore Baker, 1851-1934. Vs. 3: Friedrich Layritz, 1808-1859. Translated by Harriet R. Krauth Spaeth, 1845-1925.
Music: German, 16th century. Speierischen Gesangbuch, Cologne, 1599. Harmony by Michael Praetorius, 1571-1621.
Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming from tender stem hath sprung!
Of Jesse's lineage coming as prophets long have sung....
"A Colorful Christmas" is a recently released Christmas album with a wide variety of styling. Richard Schletty contributed three original songs and helped record and/or master four other songs. Richard is happy to be in the company of these hip Baltimore-area artists (former Punk Rock musicians who migrated to Blues/R&B/Pop). Produced by Fetal Records (headed by Azar Dagher who is a TopCatholicSongs.com member). For the songs I worked on, I had brilliant assistance from composer-arranger André van Haren (Sweden) and from Four Hands Project in Spain (Alberto Ayuso Domingo and David Gomez Sanz). The Spanish version of "Sleep, Baby, Sleep" was translated to "...
A Christmas song (Khúc Ca Giáng Sinh) made by my friend Joseph Nguyễn Hồng Ân
Khúc Ca Giáng Sinh - 2015 - Ca sĩ Nguyễn Hồng Ân